IDNO

T.171678.GIJ

Description

A man in white shirt, brown shorts and white socks sitting on the wall ledge of an old mud wall building with a corrugated roof. The lower part of the wall is painted with red ochre, the upper with a criss-cross chevron pattern of dotted lines in white, yellow and brown on a black background. In the centre of the image is the closed wooden door which is incised with a pattern of concentric circles. [PB 22/11/2024]

Place

W Africa; Nigeria; Kalabari Kingdom; Buguma

Cultural Affliation

Ijo

Named Person

Photographer

Jones, Gwilliam Iwan (known as G.I.)

Collector / Expedition

Date

circa 1960

Collection Name

Jones Collection

Source

Format

Colour Transparency

Primary Documentation

Other Information

T.171670.GIJ - T.171729.GIJ were located together in a brown envelope, now numbered C838/.